John Paul Stevens

John Paul Stevens (20 April 1920-16 July 2019) was an Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court from 17 December 1975 to 29 June 2010, succeeding William O. Douglas and preceding Elena O. Kagan.

Biography
John Paul Stevens was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1920, and he served in the US Navy during World War II before co-founding an antitrust law firm in Chicago. In 1970, President Richard Nixon appointed Stevens to the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and President Gerald Ford appointed him to the US Supreme Court five years later to fill the vacancy caused by the retirement of Justice William O. Douglas. He became the senior Associate Justice in 1994 and was considered to be a liberal justice later in his tenure, opposing the Citizens United decision and the decision to validate George W. Bush's 2000 election. He retired in 2010 and died in 2019 at the age of 99, the longest-lived Supreme Court justice.